Caps Lessons For n00bz: The Hard Hat

DC Sports Nexus ---- Wednesday, December 14, 2011

This season at the Wizards training camp, coach Flip Saunders has been handing out a Wizards logo infused hard hat at the end of each day of practice as a way to motivate the players to work hard. This is great, but I think I heard about this somewhere before...

Back in 2008, former Capital Chris Clark presented Brook Laich with a construction helmet with his number on it to wear during interviews due to his stellar play in that night's win. The Hershey Bears did it before the big team and Clark stole this idea from the '03 Flames, one of his former teams. The Flames got the idea when Craig Conroy brought it from St. Louis. That's as far as I traced it back.

I think they should start giving out mouse pads. I work hard at work despite being on a computer all day!

The Origins Of This Blog: Prior to this season I had only watched a handful of hockey games. I never really liked watching hockey and I pretty much hated the NHL. Coming in I knew the basics of the game from playing NHL '94 back in the day, but wasn't really aware of how the game really worked. I didn't know half the penalties, I didn't know that a few teams existed or didn't exist, and I was easily frustrated by many things that happened in the NHL. (Icing, Trapezoids, Biscuits, Twigs, Blue Jackets, Plus/Minus, Goons...AHHHH) However, when my beloved NBA was in danger of being locked out for an entire season, that was my cue to force myself to watch something that I previously semi-despised. That brings us to today. I am now a die hard Capitals fan...I now know a bit about hockey...but I still have a long way to go.